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Lfrith@lemmy.ca 11 hours agoThink we’ve learned most people are easily impressionable or hateful or both with how easily they get swept up in things that disturb us, and its unfortunately a minority that aren’t despite being no more privileged, educated, or smarter than peers.
I guess its kind of like gambling as an example where no matter how much people try and dissuade others from falling into it their attempts fall on deaf ears to the majority actions. And its not that people who don’t fall into it are smarter.
Sometimes the issue is that the vast collective is just already set on their own course of action, and we’re just taken along for the ride due to their vast numbers and drowned out.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
if people are impressionable, they can be swayed. it just feels immovable because it takes time, but culture can and does change.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Its easier to sway people in the worse direction with more perceived benefits than the more difficult or less appealing ideologically better option.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
the ideologically better option has reasons to be better. they are just longer term reasons that have to be sold and explored to it’s potential within our constraints.
the fediverse itself is an experiment in this, and i say we are growing a nice community over here that could eventually bring more people in, or at least shift perception and use of the internet in a healthier direction. not unlike some of our predecessors.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
I think it is like Linux where those who opt for it are fine with some of the shortcomings being outweighed by aspects they value more.
For the majority, negatives can be things they don’t even see as a con, but the shortcomings deal breakers.
I think from a small active community it is fine for users who value that more than being the largest mainstream social media option. But, not something the average mainstream user will go out of their way to stick with.